PETIE KLADSTRUP

Eugenia de Montijo, última emperatriz de Francia, fue mucho más que un icono de elegancia: fue una mujer visionaria, política influyente, promotora de la educación femenina, impulsora de la modernizacion de Paris y protagonista de los grandes debates de su tiempo. Lucho contra los prejuicios de una sociedad y demostro una capacidad de gobierno que desconcerto a la corte y a sus enemigos.Esta biografia, minuciosamente documentada, recorre su vida desde su infancia en la España convulsa del siglo XIX hasta su longeva vejez en el exilio britanico. A traves de sus triunfos, tragedias y audacias, el libro rescata la figura de una mujer injustamente olvidada, cuya influencia en la politica, la ciencia, la moda y la cultura marco el rumbo de la Francia moderna.Un retrato apasionante de una pionera que desafio las normas, abrio caminos para las mujeres y dejo una huella imborrable en la historia europea.

«Este libro narra la curiosa historia de cómo los franceses emplearon la misma tenacidad en salvar sus grandes vinos de los nazis, que la utilizada para salvaguardar los tesoros del Louvre. Una narra

The remarkable untold story of Frances courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the countrys most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II."To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour dArgentIn 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknownuntil now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and stands as a tribute to extraordinary individuals who waged a battle that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.

In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life.These are the true stories of vignerons who sheltered Jewish refugees in their cellars and of winemakers who risked their lives to aid the resistance. They made chemicals in secret laboratories to fuel the resistance and fled from the Gestapo when arrests became imminent.There were treacheries too, as some of the nations winemakers supported the Vichy regime or the Germans themselves and collaborated.Donald Kladstrup is a retired American network correspondent. He and his wife Petie have accumulated these fascinating stories, told with the pace and action that will fascinate fiction and non-fiction readers alike.